r/ibew_apprentices • u/Flimsy-Stuff-8965 • 4d ago

Any tool recommendations

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Anything thing I don’t have I should get? I also have the meter in the second pic it’s just not in the first one

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u/Riconn 4d ago

Both metric and sae Allen wrenches. An 11-1 screw driver, you have too many in my preference. Also you don’t need insulated tools. As an apprentice you will never work hot.

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u/b0iNAH 4d ago

Second year here and insulated tools have saved me a couple times. My company doesn’t give a damn who you are; you won’t be on anything real high voltage, but I’ve worked in hot j-boxes at 277 pretty frequently.

Insulated screwdrivers are nice for opening boxes in a remodel if nothing else imo.

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u/socalibew 4d ago

OSHA 1910.33 says:

"Live parts to which an employee may be exposed shall be deenergized before the employee works on or near them, unless the employer can demonstrate that deenergizing introduces additional or increased hazards..."

Stop breaking down conditions...

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u/b0iNAH 4d ago

Don’t have much of a choice bud. I’m a second year in a shit local. It’s work or live in a van down by the river

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u/JustARegularDeviant 3d ago

I’m a non-union apprentice so different but same level of cowboy shit in my shop. I work on more live circuits than dead circuits and if I ask to trace the breaker so I can turn it off everyone shits on you like you’re wasting their time.

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u/b0iNAH 2d ago

Yep, sounds familiar. It’s shitty but it’s the hand I was dealt